Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

male, 70 years old
Seamus Justin Heaney 's attempts to develop poetic language in which meaning and sound are intimately related result in concentrated, sensually...
Brian Merriman

Brian Merriman

male, deceased (1805)
Brian Merriman was an Irish language poet and teacher. His single surviving work of substance, the 1000 line long " Cúirt An Mheán Oíche" ("The Mid...
Thomas Kinsella

Thomas Kinsella

male, 81 years old
Thomas Kinsella (born May 4, 1928) is an Irish poet, translator, editor and publisher. His work, which is influenced by the modernist tradition, is...
Patrick Pearse

Patrick Pearse

male, deceased (1916)
Patrick Henry Pearse (known to Irish nationalists as Pádraig Pearse; ; 10 November, 1879 - 3 May, 1916) was a teacher, barrister, poet, writer, n...
Brendan Behan

Brendan Behan

male, deceased (1964)
Brendan Francis Behan was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also a committed...
Seamus O'Sullivan

Seamus O'Sullivan

male, deceased (1958)
Seamus O'Sullivan (real name James Sullivan Starkey) (17 July 1879 - 24 March 1958) was an Irish poet and editor of "The Dublin Magazine". He was...
Michael Hartnett

Michael Hartnett

male, deceased (1999)
Michael Hartnett was an Irish poet who wrote in both English and Irish. Belonging to no group or movement and operating outside of literary...
Pearse Hutchinson

Pearse Hutchinson

male, 82 years old
Pearse Hutchinson (born 1927) is an Irish poet, broadcaster and translator.

Aogán Ó Rathaille

male, deceased (1729)
Aogán Ó Rathaille was an Irish language poet. He was the first and greatest exponent of the "aisling" genre. Ó Rathaille was born in Screathan an...

Dáibhí Ó Bruadair

male, deceased (1698)
Dáibhí Ó Bruadair was one of the most significant Irish language Irish poets of the 17th century. He lived through a momentous time in Irish his...